I didn't see a new link for this week, so I started this week's.
Since we decided last week to make today our 'official' weigh-in, I'll start.
My stats:
height= 5ft
age = 26
Starting weight = 165.8
10/8 weight = 165.8
10% goal weight = 149.2
I put today's weight as my start weight, because I haven't really done a start weight in the past few weeks, so I figured I'll just REALLY start today.
I was kind-of happy with my weight today, because I know I didn't do as well as I could have this week and expected a much higher number. So, I am pretty motivated this week.
Also, so you guys can help be keep on track, my very short goal is to weigh 160 for Oct. 27. I have a Halloween costume party and I would like to lose those 5 lbs. by then.
Everyone have a good, healthy week and know you can count on me for support!!!!
I was looking for the new thread too, I wasn't really sure if any of us could start it or if one person was designated. Anyway, thanks for starting it ccr03. Ok, my first week on my "healthy lifestyle" didn't really go as planned. I started my walking and within 2 days, had to stop because of a pre existing knee problem that started acting up. I think maybe I did too much too quickly. Anyway, this is what I did on my first week out.
height 5ft 4
age 52
starting weight 10/01 was 164
today's weight 10/08 was 160
desired weight 130
Gonna try walking again this afternoon or tomorrow and see how it goes.
Hope everyone had a great week. We can all make this week even better!! 
Hey, that's a drop of 4 lbs!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! That's great!!! You are so far my inspiration for the week!!!
4 lbs! Wow! That's great!!
Okay, now I'm just thinking that if someone who is twice my age (and I mean that in the BEST way possible) I know I can do it!!
Well, take the walking slowly. that last thing you want to do is mess up your knee again.
Thanks so much ccr03. Yes, you ABSOLUTELY can do it! Just stay in the right frame of mind and that's half the battle. My weight loss from here on out will be a lot lower. I'm sure most of my loss this past week was water loss. That's alright though, it still shows up on the scales as weight loss, right?
I don't think it matters who starts the thread for the week. I think that whoever gets here first should start one.
I lost one stinkin' pound last week. It sure is fun gaining the weight, but it is no easy getting it off. It so frustrating to starve and exercise and not lose anything. Tonight I'm going to try to hit a spinning class at the gym.
BBL,
Michelle
I don't think it matters who starts the thread for the week. I think that whoever gets here first should start one.
I lost one stinkin' pound last week. It sure is fun gaining the weight, but it is no easy getting it off. It so frustrating to starve and exercise and not lose anything. Tonight I'm going to try to hit a spinning class at the gym.
BBL,
Michelle
michelle, when I don't lose much, I've always told myself, "that's still a pound lost instead of staying the same or gaining!" Think of this. If you only lost a pound per week, you'd lose 52 lbs after a year!!
It so frustrating to starve and exercise and not lose anything.
Michelle, why are you starving yourself? That may be part of the problem. If you are not getting enough calories in a day your body thinks you are starving it and it will actually hold on to the fat cells.
DO NOT get discouraged about a 1lb weight loss. It is healthy to lose lower amounts a week. You should realisticly lose 1 to 2 lbs a week. Yes some people can lose a little more and men (UGH) lose alot faster than women, but the slower you lose the more likely you are going to keep it off.
Remember we don't put on the weight over night, it isn't going to come off over night.
The scale was being mean to me last night! I weighed Sat night just for the fun of it and the scale said 158.6, which would have been almost a 2lb weight loss. Last night, on my usual weigh in day it said 159.8. Which is only a .5 loss. I'm going to weigh tonight, and see what it says. If it is lower again I'm keeping that freaking number! 
I know it's cheating but it really bugs me that it looked like I lost one day and then the day it 'counted' it didnt show. I was on my feet most of the evening yesterday before weighing, so I'm hoping that played a part in it.
Friday I upped my walking to 2.5 miles and did well eating last week. I didn't eat too bad this weekend, still gotta work on getting breakfast before noon though. I haven't done any mindless eating this last week though. I ate regular meals and snacks. There were a few times in the evenings that I thought I was hungry but I just ignored it and didn't eat.
MIchelle,
I've got to agree with TexasSugar. Don't overeat, but it's been said that it's better to eat three meals and three small snacks in a day vs. starving yourself. That way, how TexasSugar, said your body will let go of fat cells because it knows it'll get refueled soon enough.
I can't go to the gym today, but I'm going to try to do something when I get home.
I really don't know how to lose weight the healthy way. Ever since having my son, I've been basically eating like 1000 calories a day, until I started weight watchers. Before, on my starvation diet, I woudl do okay, then go beserk and eat everything with chocolate in sight, then feel like a big old loser b/c I ate bad things. One thing that I like about WW is the zero points foods. If I'm bad and eat brownies, I can still eat, it just has to be something like a salad or broccoli, but I can have a ton of it.
My body has definitely been in starvation mode, and all the weight I gained in pregnancy (75# both times) didn't help, and then nursing, needing the extra calories got me in the habit of eating a lot, but when I stopped nursing I kept on eating like I was nursing!
Have any of you tried Alli? I got the starter pack, used it and it didn't help me at all. Just curious.
I am so glad we have our little group! You keep me from giving up.
I don't think the side affects from Alli sound all that great. It does promote healthy eating and exercises, and doesn't just promise miracle weight lose. Which is a plus compared to other magic weight loss pills.
I sounds like it is just time to retrain your body and yourself. One of my biggest problems has been eating regular meals. And since I've been working on that the last two weeks I have really felt a difference. When I sit down to eat I'm not starved and don't pig out. You also have to figure out when you are really hungry and when you just think you are or are eating for other reasons, such as emotional ones.
What you do to lose weight should be something you can do from now on. You can't strave yourself or give up most foods to lose weight and then go back to eating 'normally' again. You have to make changes in your diet that you can live with. You don't have to give up everything, you just have to remember when you eat it that you eat smaller amounts and eat the really bad stuff less often. Replace bad things with healthier things. You have to retrain your taste buds as well. 
So earlier I was complaining about my scale. Well I'm cheating this week, sorta. I figure if two out of three days say almost the same thing they can't be too wrong. Yesterday when I weighed I had been on my feet for like 4-5 hours before hand and I think that affected my loss. The scale tonight said 158.7 and I'm sticking with that. 
So my stats are:
Height - 5ft
Age - 28
Weight 9/23 - 162.1
Weight 9/30 - 160.3
Weight 10/08 - 158.7
Weekly Loss - 1.6
Total Loss - 3.4
I'd like to lose 18-24 lbs between now and the end of the year. I won't be done then, but I'm looking at the short term goal for now.
My sad news for today is that the treadmill is acting up. 
I'm not sure why, but when you step on and and start walking it is slowing down big time. When you step off it speeds up where it should be. 
It is totally furstrating.
My treadmill is broken too, Texassugar. It slows down, then stops altogether! I gave away in a fit of hormones (my pms is horrible) so I joined a gym and it's even better than a treadmill, b/c they babysit my kids while I work out. They get to play w/ new kids and new toys, and I don't have a 2 yr old trying to tell me it's his turn to play on the treadmill.
I only had the side effects once with Alli, but it was not pleasant!
Well, I didn't work out yesterday, but I did bring my workout clothes to go to the gym today and then I am going walking with a friend.
One of the things I need to do that really helped me lost most of my weight is when I would sit down each Sunday and plan out my meals to the tee. Sure, I'd leave some wiggle room, but that way I knew what food I was going to have. I need to do that again, and get me some healthy snacks.
I've learned that I CANNOT have any chocolate/candy/cakes in the house-period. If there is some, I will dream about it and get up and eat like 10 servings. I'm an emotional eater, too. Stress/conflict/aggravation make me run straight for the kitchen. I just hung up the phone with my mother, so I'm feeling all of the above right now. 
I'm going to get my brother to look at the treadmill and see if he can fix it. If not then I guess I'll start saving for another one. I'm not really a gym person and don't really know when I would go. I baby sit my friend's daughter 10-11 hours a day (Mon-Fri), then 2-3 days a week I teach Wilton classes in the evenings. So on the days I have classes, I have the baby from 6:30 to 5:30 then I change clothes and teach from 6:30 to 8:30 usually leaving the store around 9. At the end of those days I just don't think I'd muster the energy to go to the gym.
The treadmill is convient since I can hope on it while the baby is napping or when I have a little bit of free time, rather than having to drive somewhere. I think if I did that I'd talk myself out of it more often than not.
I don't have class tonight or tomorrow night so if all else fails I can go walking around the neighborhood. My nephew likes it when I do that since he can go with me. Thursday will be a little harder because I have baby, class that night and have to go visit my grandma. But if I remember I can ask my friend to leave me her stroller and me and the baby can go for a walk.
Michellenj, figuring out the things that trigger your eating is a good thing. Because you can work on thinking twice about rushing to the kitchen for food. Get a glass of water and find something you can do that will keep your hands busy. It will help take your mind off food and get you thinking about something else.
It does help to not have 'bad' foods in the house so you can't run to them. Having healthier choices does help as well, so when you are hungry you can go for something better for you.
So I am feeling yucky! I went to WW to weigh in on Thursday and I had actually gained!!!!!!! I really don't know how that happened - I am hoping that it was bloat or something because I was so careful. But...as is quite often the case - it really made me feel like crap! I know (or feel like I know) the WW plan inside out - I success loss 80lbs before I hit a funk about 2 years ago. I never hit my goal - I just couldn't break through the rut and gave up trying after about 4 or 5 months. Since then I have been plus or minus the same couple of pounds until the last couple of months. I am up 10 lbs so I went back to WW 2 weeks ago. I've actually gotten better at walking on a regular basis, I don't have any of the "bad" food in my house. I eat my point limit and drink my water. I get a good fat/protien/veg/carb combo and I allow myself littel treats so I don't feel deprived and binge....See why I am so disheartened? I feel I am doing all the things I should be doing but I just can't seem to break through...I'm going to go back and wallow in self pity now....
Actually - I'm going to go outside for a little walk to clear my head so I can focus on my work instead of posting on these forums...such an addictive site!!!
vonnie, I know exactly how you are feeling. I lost about 45 pounds w/WW last year, stopped going and have been on that plateau for months!
I think our bodies are now used to eating healthy and knows our routine. Keeping pulling though and don't get down. Remember, if you are working out on a regular basis, your probably gaining muscle.
I didn't work out today, either. I really need to go, b/c my conversation w/ my mother left me aggravated, then dd told me something that she said last month when they visited last month and I am raging! So I had a bag of m&m's. Jst a little individual one, but I feel like a big old slug now. Oh well! I'll just be reeeealllly good tomorrow.
Sorry you gained, Vonnie. Better luck next week. It's probably water weight.
If you are doing all the 'right' things and the weight isn't coming off, it may be time to make some adjustments. Maybe you need to take in a few less calories or step you your work outs a little more. Our body do hit plateaus and it make take a little time to get over it.
Can you add a little more time or activity to your work out routine?
michellenj, atleast it was a small bag and not those big ones. Or half the candy aisle. Think postive! And next time your mother gets to you, find something physical to do and work away those emotions.
Here some happy weight loss news - my dog lost a 1 1/2 pounds!!! Yahoo for Toby! She is a bit of a piglet and I've been trying to get her weight down for a while now. She is 36 pounds - still a bit heavy for a beagle but better than she was before. I'm so proud of my little girl!
My dog is overweight, too! She just gets way too many table scraps, she is a major food thief and is constantly stealing ds's food. She's almost 100#!
Oh, I was so worked up about my mother yesterday that I would have eaten the ENTIRE candy aisle, TexasSugar! lol Back in my super-thin days, my office was having a Halloween party. They had gotten a 5# bag of peanut m&m's and I oured them into a big bowl and said to my boss that I just couldn't stop eating them. He whipped out a $100 bill and told me that if I ate all of them he'd give me the $100. I ate 5# of m&m's! Took me all day long, but I did it. I was so sick.
It is very easy to walk by and get a handful of this or a handful of that and not really think about what is going in our mouths. Then you look in the bowl, bag or box and find it empty.
Families can be frustrating and agravating. Just remember it isn't hurting your mother every time you eat something cause she is being a pain in the, well you know. It is only hurting you. I think it is a great thing that you are aware that when she makes you mad you turn to food. Knowing our weaknesses is half the battle. Now you just have to figure out things to do it rid of that frustration that doesn't involve food.
My family is supportive about my weight loss, but there are times when they just really get to me. It is usually in the form of their advice on what I should be doing to help me lose weight. Of course none of them are following their own advice and are all over weight. Sometimes you just have to let things roll off your back.
TexasSugar - you are so on the money! Families can be your greatest stumbling blocks even though they have good intentions. My friend's mother was terrible - she would announce at functions - "Oh Sherry, you can't have that remember Weight Watchers..." and tell people - "Oh Sherry can't go there - she's doing WW - you don't want to tempt her." And while her mom thought she was helping her, Sherry would be boiling mad because she had all eyes on every bite of food she took. My family try to be supportive, but they are all naturally thin - and very athletic! It is incomprehesible to my 3 siblings that there are people like me that hate working out and do not "feel better" afterward. It is not fun being the short fat one in the family of tall skinny atheletes!
But what you say is true - by eating the candy or the ice cream, your are only punishing yourself - the boyfriend that dumped, the mom that butted in, the kid that won't go to bed - they are all still there and now so are these delightful dimples on your thighs!
I love my little brother! He moved in with me in July since he is going to grad. school in the area and I told him the only thing I ask is that we either split the grocery bill or each buy our own so that I can "control" what I have on hand to eat and snack on. So last night, he started going through the cupboards and freezer taking all this stuff out. I asked him what he was doing and he was get rid of all the "bad" food because he doesn't want to be the one to blame if me and the dog get derailed with weight loss. I told him he didn't have to do that and he was very insistent that he did...eventually he told me he was doing it because he has gained 5 pounds and is going to start eating better food instead of cheap food so he doesn't gain more. The mean girl in me was gleeful - Mr. Super Athlete is getting flabby - but then nice me was proud of him for realizing that he couldn't eat that crap even if he did work out everyday. And I will admit - I have been tempted to rip open the cookies and Kraft Mac and cheese some nights - and it probably would have only been a matter of time before I did - but now they are gone (he brought them to my sisters house - she has 3 very active kids). I'm thinking that it might make things easier now that both of us are being careful with food - I have someone to try new recipes on!!!
congrats! vonnie, that is great! Not having junk food around really helps. Like I am really proud of myself today. Even though out weigh-in here is on Monday, my WW week doesn't start until Tuesday. WEll, I know it's just two days, but Tuesday and Wednesday I exercised both days for an hour, wrote down everything that I ate and did not go over on my points. I am very proud of myself.
Good morning, all!
Talk about tired! I went to the gym 2x yesterday-once and ran 3m and lifted weights, then went back for a spinning class at 6 PM. There was a new instructor and he was HARD. My legs were already tired from working out earlier, and I thought to myself that I could "fake it" through the class. I did okay, but my legs feel wobbly and hurt today! The instructor asked me my name and kept yelling at me during the class. All of that exercise is worth 10 Activity Points, so how many m&m's does that equal? 
I'm definitely not exercising today, besides my legs hurting, ds woke up at 2 a.m. and was up until after 5.
Have y'all tried Progresso's soup that is worth 0 WW points? I've tried a couple, and they are not bad.
That's great Michelle! I went to the gym, did my circuit training and then was going to go to my Zumba class, but decided not to - I ran/jogged 2m instead. I really love running/jogging, so that's going to be my new activity for a while.
Tonight I can't go to the gym, but I'll just try to walk/jog/run 4m instead. Or even if it's just 2m, I'll try to do a video. My goal is to workout one hour each day.
I really like that new 0 point Progresso too - but bewarned - the sodium is really high! I bring a can of it work for lunch and eat both of the serverings - so you double everything....that's about 65-57% of the recommended sodium intact for a day - so if you eat popcorn or use salt or have any "diet" food - your sodium intake goes sky high for the day. And that means BLOATING!!!! The sodium in this soup isn't really any different to the level in the regular or 100 cal Progresso so I think it is probably just a good thing to keep in mind with processed soups in general.
What's Zumba? I've never heard of it, but I live in the sticks.
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